Terrain repairs "GW Desert table"

The Games Workshop Realms of battle Desert table.

It is showing wear and bald spots. The are indentations, craters, and chunks sticking up. This is mostly my fault. The initial layer for sand was wrong. I got so cheap sand from Home Depot. Not play sand, more like construction sand.

The sand was not uniform in size. It created a very uneven surface. Stands and model would be off balance and tip. The rough nature also was very rough on terrain and models. Some larger chunks stuck at odd angles and stuck up too much. Those broke off right away. There by creating holes.
Also half way thru I started to sift the crap out. Then the nozzle on the spray bottle clogged. It was not spraying, but shooting out a jet. The jet moved the base layer around, increasing unleved, crap surface.

The table has been around for about 2 + years now. In the condition that it is currently in and with little to do this week, it is time for repairs. The first step was to scrap the top genteelly with a paint stirrer. This would bust off the larger chunks sticking up and attached poorly. The surface was then brushed and vacuumed. The second step was to take FL beach sand, very fine sand to level the surface. I soaked the original layers with watered down white glue. Then using a shaker bottle coated it in the fine sand. The fine sand self levels.

I don’t want it totally flat and level, because ground just ain’t that way. Just level and flat enough that stands are not wobbling like drunken sailors.

The edge along the hills took a beating.

The 3rd step is matching the tiles to each other. 3 different home made flocking mixtures were used.

If you even do this, remember sand gets darker when wet. You will need to soak it. As in below, it does not look very desert more afghan like. Once it dries, which will take forever, everything will lighten up.

Game Table storage

Done! Well sort of. The table is finished, everything is out of storage and back into the house. Only thing to do is get it sorted.

You can see the clamp in the lower right. My head 1, table zero. But it hurt so bad I cried out in pain and not the normal avalanche of MoFos and BOSs. Did not black out but it was a standing 8 count.
The second bench has become a landing pad for everything that I don’t know what to do with. The lower left of the table I have set up to start casting and the upper left flocking. I had like 4 projects that were waiting on flocking, A.D.D. overdriver. This is why nothing ever gets done.

Little help to stay focused

As I am sorting the mess, I keep finding things that must go or I over bought. Check ebay and TacComs War Gaming trades! The stuff must go, find a loving home.

Table build continues

So close to being finish. It is the little bit here and there. Glue the last support beams to the bottom of the gaming surface.

What a door? It was the old door to the space. By code a fire door, nope the new door is a fire and security door. Metal framed and lined with a 2 hour burn time. Too bad the sheet rock’s burn time is less.
Hmmm where the hell am I going to put that? The workers should have taken that piggy with them.

Lesson learned; I didn’t properly set the table’s edge lip high enough. I wanted it high enough up that it would stop the hex tiles, double stacked, from shifting. Total fail! I will get have a hex’s height.
Lesson number two. I put those furniture moving disc under each leg and the center support. They are attached by screws because there is no way in hell once it is load up I would be able to lift it to put back under. The whole table now slides, with good effort, across the flooring

The storage options underneath will be an ongoing development. I had a plan, not any more. I will create custom parts as the year goes on. The first will be the buildings and fields in 6/20/28mm. Once they are safely packed away space will open up.

Next will be a way to store the GeoHex tiles. There are a cubic butt ton of them.

Game Table

First off the rest of the flooring tile arrived. The floor was completed last night. I got an extra package to cover me in the future. I am more than willing to bet a tile or two gets damaged!

The table will sit 38 inches high. Mr Bookwalter said his was such. And he has had his table for years and years. In the end it will be 6 x 8 with all sorts of fancy storage underneath.

What a ball breaker. Between twisted and inaccurately cut boards. Man, if its says 6 or 8 feet premium hard wood, why the hell would you give me an extra inch. Piss and Blood! In Duck Dodger’s 21st and 1/2 century with have CNC tool sets. Why is nothing square? What are we chinese?